Khalil Al-Hayya is a known pragmatist. But the group's militant wing aided his election — and it won't accept Israel's deliberately unworkable demands.
“Don't be surprised if you see Al-Hayya entering an alliance with Dahlan and reestablishing Hamas' relations with the Emirates,” a knowledgeable source in Gaza told me two weeks ago — referring to the newly elected leader of Hamas, Khalil Al-Hayya, and the exiled former Fatah leader, Mohammed Dahlan.
Khalil Al-Hayya at the funeral of (…)

When we were asked to investigate Russia's indoctrination and militarisation of children living in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow since 2014, we had a general idea of the Kremlin's occupation policies. Two of us grew up in what was then Soviet-occupied Latvia and East Germany. We were already familiar with the Soviet approach to “upbringing”.
But when we went to Ukraine, what we found still shocked us. There was plenty of evidence of the systematic and coercive nature of the (…)

Au moins 60 enseignant.es ont été arrêté.es ou condamné.es alors que les autorités cherchent à démanteler l'un des réseaux d'organisations civiques indépendantes les plus influents d'Iran.
Selon le Centre pour les droits humains en Iran, la République islamique a lancé une campagne soutenue et organisée contre les enseignant.es à la suite des manifestations sanglantes de janvier 2026.
Les enseignant.es constituent l'un des groupes civiques indépendants les plus importants et influents (…)

Ils viennent du Soudan ou de Côte d'Ivoire, et se sont regroupés sur une plage au nord-est de l'enclave. Si l'armée ne cherche pas à les expulser, le centre d'accueil temporaire est saturé et ne peut les prendre en charge. Ils survivent dans des conditions indignes.
Ceuta (Espagne).– Ils sont assis sur un muret, tournant le dos à la mer. Imad et Ahmad, 18 et 21 ans, sont originaires du Soudan. « Du Darfour », précisent-ils. Ils ont traversé la frontière jeudi 30 juillet, comme de nombreux (…)

Around 15 years ago, I created a Facebook page for my cat, Sandi. Friends thought it was weird. Today, social media accounts for cats attract millions of followers, cats travel in backpacks and prams, and surveys consistently show that the overwhelming majority of owners regard their pets as family.
I've previously written about how cats became domesticated. But domestication isn't necessarily a process with an endpoint. Could it still be continuing today?
Examples from wildlife suggest (…)